I do like that Slashdot chose a story with a tech angle to cover this event, instead of just throwing the first piece of red meat that came along. Also, posting about it the day after it happened gives time to get the facts right, instead of the first tweet that is inevitably wrong.
And that's not even getting into the fact that if California seceded, they'd probably lose all of the rural counties that would want to form their own state (such as the already existing movement to form a state called Jefferson,) so California would have basically no farmland with all of those homeless people to feed.
You don't seem to realize that you people are reacting EXACTLY as Bin Laden wanted you to. He baited you and you fell for it. Look at what our nation has become since 9/11. Bin Laden wanted to destroy our freedom, and he has succeeded
I have seen no evidence that this was Bin Laden's goal. He wanted to establish a Caliphate in the middle east, and pushing America out of the region was his strategy. It didn't work, because America didn't react the same way as after the Beirut barrack bombings.
Horses, fireplaces, and physical security... not much to complain about.
I don't think you understand how bad horses can smell (and how much mess they can make). Also, fireplaces put out a lot of pollution (and are usually just for looks: a wood stove is what will really generate some heat for you).
According to this article, it was not the locks that were encrypted. The computers they used to make new card keys got encrypted. I'd bet that it was just a bog-standard Windows box with a dongle attached, maybe running Windows XP if the drivers couldn't be updated. Here is a quote from the hotel manager:
"We were hacked, but nobody was locked in or out," said the hotel's Managing Director Christopher Brandstaetter. "For one day we were not able to make new keycards."
"Since the locking system must work even in the event of power failure, the guests in the hotel almost did not notice the incident," the manager also added. "We simply could not issue new keycards because the computers were encrypted."
According to this article, they were not locked in their rooms. But most people were out skiing at that time, so almost everyone was locked out.
Fire code regulations all over the globe mandate that electronic key locks to open manually from the inside, which means no guest was locked inside their rooms. Additionally, electronic key systems are also created to handle power failures, so there was a way to open the doors from the outside, meaning no one was locked out either. According to Austrian news site ORF, the hotel was fully-booked with 180 guests. According to hospitality news site Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung, at the time the ransomware took root, all the hotel's guests were on the local ski slopes.
Yeah, in the worst case, if they force you to tell them your salary (and for some reason you still want to work there), you can always follow up by saying, "I was underpaid. I do good work, work quickly and am worth a lot more."
Nah, I'll give you some methods. There are plenty of companies doing surveys on the topic of salaries, you can pick them up (I snagged one from a manager at a previous company). Glassdoor will give you a ballbark idea. Here's another article, that gives you some good starting points. It's a little old, so salaries have moved up since then.
Another technique that works is: when a recruiter calls you, ask for $30k more than you really want. If the recruiter seems happy, then you asked too low (which means you should ask for $50k more next time). If the recruiter sounds a bit terrified, then you asked for the right amount. The last time I got hired, I scared away a lot of recruiters this way, but not all of them. The ones who weren't scared away were the ones I wanted to work with (and I got within $2.5k of my asking price).
to persuade people in a negotiation you need to be able to get some kind of source to be able to prove your claims.
No, there are plenty of techniques you can use. I strongly suggest reading this book, because you are going about it the wrong way. In fact, if you go up to your boss and say, "My salary is below average, here is proof," he'll probably look at your proof for a while, then say, "You are right, my boy. Let's talk about this during your next performance review and see what we can do for you." At the next performance review, you'll get a 2%-3% payraise, if you are lucky. To some degree, facts don't matter during negotiation.
tbh it's usually better to not lie in this situation. If they ask you, tell them "I am looking for a salary in the $170k range." Say a bit higher than you actually want.
The key is to getting a good salary is to know what your work is worth, what people are paying for your skills. If you don't know that, then you are going to mess up the salary negotiation no matter how well you lie to them.
Not to call you out, but none of the Nordic states nor New Zealand are trying to become communist. They're pretty much happy with capitalism combined with regulation from the government.
What does it mean to compete with smaller countries' national currencies? How would they do that? Would that mean when I buy from my local South African store something here I would use Amazon Dollars? Really?
That's exactly what it means, people start using Amazon dollars instead of [small country money].
And the people and govt here would allow it? And why would it want to do it?
Because the government barely can manage a currency, don't move quickly enough to outlaw it, or just don't care. Why would you want to do it? Because you can put Amazon money in a bank and not worry about 20% inflation the next year. Things like that.
That's an interesting thought.......what about a parking garage? It can be just concrete, without any decoration. Or an array of army barracks. Or.......a prison cell?
there's no substitute for watching actual users struggle with your design. Any time you find something that makes them pause, even for a moment, you should file that bump down.
This is worth repeating. Multiple times. It should be at the front of every design textbook. On the cover.
2D flat everything is now all the rage wherever you look, and people think they're being cool
2D flat is old-skool, boring, derivative. Now if you want to be cool, you need to use a multi-stop gradient, preferably several of them mixed with alphablending.
During the Renaissance we had visually brilliant works of art created. Later generations shunned this and decided that a canvas painted a solid color had just as much merit. Which is "right"? Neither.
No, Raphael's works have much more merit than a canvas painted in solid color. That isn't even a question. The canvas painted in solid color can be interesting, but it's on a lower level.
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A bill signed by Obama to avoid a government shutdown [wikipedia.org]. Hardly an example of Obama actively pushing restrictions on those 7 countries.
Sneaky republicans!
I do like that Slashdot chose a story with a tech angle to cover this event, instead of just throwing the first piece of red meat that came along. Also, posting about it the day after it happened gives time to get the facts right, instead of the first tweet that is inevitably wrong.
No, the doors weren't locked. Read that article: it was the machine that was used to re-program the keys that got encrypted.
And that's not even getting into the fact that if California seceded, they'd probably lose all of the rural counties that would want to form their own state (such as the already existing movement to form a state called Jefferson,) so California would have basically no farmland with all of those homeless people to feed.
Or water.
You don't seem to realize that you people are reacting EXACTLY as Bin Laden wanted you to. He baited you and you fell for it. Look at what our nation has become since 9/11. Bin Laden wanted to destroy our freedom, and he has succeeded
I have seen no evidence that this was Bin Laden's goal. He wanted to establish a Caliphate in the middle east, and pushing America out of the region was his strategy. It didn't work, because America didn't react the same way as after the Beirut barrack bombings.
Trump: "Are my executive orders legal?"
Winning judge: "How legal do you want them to be?"
Even Roosevelt couldn't get that, with three terms of trying.
Horses, fireplaces, and physical security... not much to complain about.
I don't think you understand how bad horses can smell (and how much mess they can make). Also, fireplaces put out a lot of pollution (and are usually just for looks: a wood stove is what will really generate some heat for you).
"We were hacked, but nobody was locked in or out," said the hotel's Managing Director Christopher Brandstaetter. "For one day we were not able to make new keycards." "Since the locking system must work even in the event of power failure, the guests in the hotel almost did not notice the incident," the manager also added. "We simply could not issue new keycards because the computers were encrypted."
Fire code regulations all over the globe mandate that electronic key locks to open manually from the inside, which means no guest was locked inside their rooms. Additionally, electronic key systems are also created to handle power failures, so there was a way to open the doors from the outside, meaning no one was locked out either. According to Austrian news site ORF, the hotel was fully-booked with 180 guests. According to hospitality news site Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung, at the time the ransomware took root, all the hotel's guests were on the local ski slopes.
Huge chunks of Intel processors are formally verified now. Intel increased usage of formal verification as a result of the fdiv bug.
Yeah, in the worst case, if they force you to tell them your salary (and for some reason you still want to work there), you can always follow up by saying, "I was underpaid. I do good work, work quickly and am worth a lot more."
Another technique that works is: when a recruiter calls you, ask for $30k more than you really want. If the recruiter seems happy, then you asked too low (which means you should ask for $50k more next time). If the recruiter sounds a bit terrified, then you asked for the right amount. The last time I got hired, I scared away a lot of recruiters this way, but not all of them. The ones who weren't scared away were the ones I wanted to work with (and I got within $2.5k of my asking price).
to persuade people in a negotiation you need to be able to get some kind of source to be able to prove your claims.
No, there are plenty of techniques you can use. I strongly suggest reading this book, because you are going about it the wrong way. In fact, if you go up to your boss and say, "My salary is below average, here is proof," he'll probably look at your proof for a while, then say, "You are right, my boy. Let's talk about this during your next performance review and see what we can do for you." At the next performance review, you'll get a 2%-3% payraise, if you are lucky. To some degree, facts don't matter during negotiation.
tbh it's usually better to not lie in this situation. If they ask you, tell them "I am looking for a salary in the $170k range." Say a bit higher than you actually want.
The key is to getting a good salary is to know what your work is worth, what people are paying for your skills. If you don't know that, then you are going to mess up the salary negotiation no matter how well you lie to them.
Not to call you out, but none of the Nordic states nor New Zealand are trying to become communist. They're pretty much happy with capitalism combined with regulation from the government.
I don't know why you got modded down, but you are absolutely right.
What does it mean to compete with smaller countries' national currencies? How would they do that? Would that mean when I buy from my local South African store something here I would use Amazon Dollars? Really?
That's exactly what it means, people start using Amazon dollars instead of [small country money].
And the people and govt here would allow it? And why would it want to do it?
Because the government barely can manage a currency, don't move quickly enough to outlaw it, or just don't care. Why would you want to do it? Because you can put Amazon money in a bank and not worry about 20% inflation the next year. Things like that.
Apple internally working on a pot project explains a lot of the output coming from there recently. It's sure better than the alternative explanations.
You might say in that case, the form is a vessel for drool.
That's an interesting thought.......what about a parking garage? It can be just concrete, without any decoration. Or an array of army barracks. Or.......a prison cell?
there's no substitute for watching actual users struggle with your design. Any time you find something that makes them pause, even for a moment, you should file that bump down.
This is worth repeating. Multiple times. It should be at the front of every design textbook. On the cover.
2D flat everything is now all the rage wherever you look, and people think they're being cool
2D flat is old-skool, boring, derivative. Now if you want to be cool, you need to use a multi-stop gradient, preferably several of them mixed with alphablending.
During the Renaissance we had visually brilliant works of art created. Later generations shunned this and decided that a canvas painted a solid color had just as much merit. Which is "right"? Neither.
No, Raphael's works have much more merit than a canvas painted in solid color. That isn't even a question. The canvas painted in solid color can be interesting, but it's on a lower level.
Got a Super HD display showing 7680x4320?
To be fair, this is an expensive case to actually test for.
In the same way that "form follows function," beauty must be an afterthought of usability. A system that puts appearance above usability fails.
To some extent I agree.......the -1 posts should be shown in collapsed form, so at least you know they are there.